Richard Dreyfuss
- Known For: Acting
- Birthday: 29-10-1947
- Gender: Male
- Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Also Known As:
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss
- Popularity: 2.72
- Homepage: N/A
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An American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Stakeout, Always, What About Bob? and Mr. Holland's Opus. Dreyfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for The Goodbye Girl, and was nominated in 1995 for Mr. Holland's Opus. He has also won a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA Award, and was nominated in 2002 for Screen Actors Guild Awards in the Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries categories. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Dreyfuss, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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| Year | Movie | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | American Graffiti | as Curt Henderson |
| 1977 | Close Encounters of the Third Kind | as Roy Neary |
| 1995 | Mr. Holland's Opus | as Glenn Holland |
| 1987 | Stakeout | as Det. Chris Lecce |
| 1987 | Tin Men | as Bill 'BB' Babowsky |
| 1989 | Always | as Pete Sandich |
| 1998 | Krippendorf's Tribe | as Prof. Krippendorf |
| 1981 | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | as Ken Harrison |
| 1975 | Inserts | as Boy Wonder |
| 1993 | Another Stakeout | as Det. Chris Lecce |
| 1993 | Lost in Yonkers | as Louie Kurnitz |
| 1988 | Moon Over Parador | as Jack Noah / President Alphonse Simms |
| 1980 | The Competition | as Paul Dietrich |
| 1978 | The Big Fix | as Moses Wine |
| 1974 | The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | as Duddy |
| 1977 | The Goodbye Girl | as Elliot Garfield |
| 1984 | The Buddy System | as Joe |
| 1994 | Silent Fall | as Dr. Jacob W. "Jake" Rainer |
| 1996 | Mad Dog Time | as Vic |
| 2001 | The Old Man Who Read Love Stories | |
| 1997 | Oliver Twist | as Fagin |
| 2009 | The Lightkeepers | as Seth |
| 1989 | Let It Ride | as Jay Trotter |
| 2000 | The Crew | as Bobby Bartellemeo / Narrator |
| 2001 | The Day Reagan Was Shot | as Alexander Haig |
| 1999 | Lansky | as Meyer Lansky |
| 2007 | The Shark Is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of Jaws | as Himself |
| 2003 | Teddy Roosevelt: An American Lion | as Theodore Roosevelt |
| 2000 | Walking the Tracks: The Summer of Stand by Me | as Himself |
| 2004 | A Legacy of Filmmakers: The Early Years of American Zoetrope | as Narrator |
| 2011 | The Two Million Year Old Boy | as Narator |
| 2014 | Squatters | as David Silverman |
| 1991 | Prisoner of Honor | as Col. Picquart |
| 2006 | Poseidon | as Richard Nelson |
| 1975 | Jaws | as Matt Hooper |
| 1991 | What About Bob? | as Dr. Leo Marvin |
| 2000 | Fail Safe | as President |
| 1987 | Nuts | as Aaron Levinsky |
| 1991 | Once Around | as Sam |
| 2004 | Silver City | as Chuck Raven |
| 1997 | The Call of the Wild: Dog of the Yukon | as Narrator (voice) |
| 2013 | Cas & Dylan | as Dr. Cas Pepper |
| 2004 | Coast to Coast | as Barnaby Pierce |
| 2009 | My Life in Ruins | as Irv Gideon |
| 2014 | Caserta Palace Dream | as Luigi Vanvitelli |
| 1970 | America Betrayed | as Narrator |
| 2016 | Third Party President: Citizen Rocky | as himself |
| 1998 | Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude | as Narrator |
| 1996 | The Universal Story | as Himself |
| 2019 | The Last Laugh | as Buddy Green |
| 1970 | Killing Winston Jones | as Winston Jones |
| 2019 | Astronaut | as Angus |
| 1992 | The Johnstown Flood | as narrator |
| 2009 | Leaves of Grass | as Pug Rothbaum |
| 1986 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | as David 'Dave' Whiteman |
| 1991 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead | as The Player |
| 1995 | The Making of Jaws | as Himself |
| 2017 | Spielberg | as Self |
| 2007 | Ocean of Fear | as Narrator |
| 2001 | Who Is Cletis Tout? | as Micah Donnelly |
| 1972 | Two for the Money | as Morris Gap |
| 1974 | The Second Coming of Suzanne | as Clavius |
| 2015 | Zipper | as George Hiller |
| 2001 | The Making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' | as Himself |
| 2018 | Asher | as Avi |
| 2018 | Bayou Caviar | as Yuri |
| 2006 | Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive | as Himself |
| 1974 | New England Our Way | as Himself |
| 2001 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys | as Scoop the Snowman (voice) |
| 2007 | The Man Who Shot Chinatown: The Life and Work of John A. Alonzo | as Self |
| 1976 | Victory at Entebbe | as Colonel Yonatan 'Yonni' Netanyahu |
| 1990 | Postcards from the Edge | as Doctor Frankenthal |
| 2013 | Very Good Girls | as Danny |
| 2007 | AFI: 100 Years... 100 Movies... 10th Anniversary Edition | as Himself |
| 2019 | Daughter of the Wolf | as Father |
| 1996 | James and the Giant Peach | as Centipede (voice) |
| 1994 | It's Alive: The True Story of Frankenstein | as Himself |
| 1969 | Hello Down There | as Harold Webster |
| 1995 | The Last Word | as Larry |
| 1998 | The Making of 'American Graffiti' | as Himself |
| 2008 | W. | as Dick Cheney |
| 2013 | Paranoia | as Frank Cassidy |
| 1973 | Dillinger | as Baby Face Nelson |
| 1996 | Night Falls on Manhattan | as Sam Vigoda |
| 1997 | Frank Capra's American Dream | as Himself |
| 1968 | The Young Runaways | as Terry |
| 2018 | Book Club | as George |
| 1988 | James Stewart's Wonderful Life | as Himself |
| 2003 | The John Garfield Story | as Self |
| 2005 | The Adventures of Errol Flynn | as Himself - Actor |
| 2009 | I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale | as Himself |
| 2010 | Piranha 3D | as Matthew Boyd |
| 2013 | Milius | as Himself |
| 2020 | Audrey | as Himself |
| 2010 | RED | as Alexander Dunning |
| 1995 | The American President | as Senator Bob Rumson |
| 1967 | The Graduate | as Boarding House Student |
| 2019 | Polar | as Porter |
| 1986 | Stand by Me | as The Writer |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | as Himself |
| 1967 | Valley of the Dolls | as Assistant Stage Manager (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Lincoln | |
| 2001 | R2-D2: Beneath the Dome | as Self |
| 2012 | Casting By | as Himself |
| 2001 | In Search of Peace | as Yitzhak Rabin (voice) |
| 1977 | The Sentinel | as Man on sidewalk talking to girl in red sweater (uncredited) |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | |
| 1995 | Present Tense, Past Perfect | |
| 1991 | Once Around | |
| 1997 | Oliver Twist | |
| 1978 | The Big Fix |